The Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Boeing 737-800SF passenger-to-freighter conversion, already approved by the FAA, Israel’s CAA, and China’s CAAC, has received an EASA supplemental type certificate (STC), the company said at Farnborough, and is now available for European customers. IAI has completed the first two converted aircraft converted under the STC and has delivered them to a customer in Spain. More conversions have begun.

With demand for freighter conversions rising worldwide, according to IAI, the company last year established its first European conversion site in Naples, Italy, with Italian partner Alitech. IAI also recently opened cargo conversion lines worldwide for other models, including the Boeing 767-300 in Ethiopia and 777-300 in South Korea and Abu Dhabi, UAE.